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The Verge Tech

Being a mom is hard — the heat is making it harder

It's 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing with our four-month-old. "How was the botanic garden?" I ask him. "It was okay. It was just too hot," he tells me. I didn't expect us to spend so much of our son's first summer cooped up inside, hiding from the heat. As I write this, an extreme heat warning for my area is glaring at me from my phone, effective for at least the next three days. "Dangerously ho

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
DZone

Part 1: Building Governed MCP Tool Services With Quarkus LangChain4j and Goose

Goose — the open-source, Rust-based AI developer agent from Block (donated to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation) — interacts natively with your local development environment via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). In this tutorial, you will learn how to build stateless, cloud-native Java microservices using Quarkus LangChain4j and expose them as governed MCP extensions that Goose can discover and run seamlessly. Autonomous AI coding agents like Goose go far beyond simple code autocomple

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The Verge Tech

The Switch 2’s $50 price increase is happening next week

This is a friendly reminder that the Nintendo Switch 2 will jump in price by $50 starting on September 1st. That’s next Tuesday! The company gave plenty of notice, but the time has finally come. The base 256GB model that ships without a game will go from $449.99 to $499.99. Nintendo recently announced two bundles (both well over $500) shipping this fall that include a game with a slight discount. If you’re on the fence for a Switch 2, now is a pretty good time to buy one — not just because of th

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AWS Security Blog

Detecting multi-stage attacks on AWS: A guide to cross-service signal correlation

A single alert from one security service tells you something happened. Read that signal alongside activity from other services and your own business context, and you will know whether what happened is part of a multi-stage attack. Consider a short sequence. An identity calls GetCallerIdentity from a source address it hasn’t previously used. Within minutes, […]

Advanced (300)Amazon CloudWatchAmazon GuardDuty
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ExternalSoftware Architecture
AWS Architecture Blog

Gallup scales real-time coaching for thousands with Amazon Bedrock

Gallup transformed 90 years of workplace science into Gallup AI, a generative AI assistant powered by Amazon Bedrock that delivers real-time, personalized coaching to leaders directly within the Gallup Access application.

Amazon BedrockCustomer Solutions
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